quicken
quicken is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite. Face value is 22 in Scrabble and 25 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite.
- adjective. To make lively, active, or sprightly; to impart additional energy to; to stimulate; to make quick or rapid; to hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken one's steps or thoughts; to quicken one's departure or speed.
- adjective. To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced.
- intransitive verb. To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb.
- intransitive verb. To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened.
- verb. give new life or energy to
"A hot soup will revive me"
"This will renovate my spirits"
- verb. show signs of life
"the fetus quickened"
- verb. move faster
"The car accelerated"
- verb. give life or energy to
"The cold water invigorated him"
- verb. make keen or more acute
"whet my appetite"
Synonyms
animate, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify, accelerate, speed, invigorate, whet
Common word forms
quickens, quickened, quickener, quickening
Words from these letters
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